German Guns Threaten Allied Lines in Picardy Front
The German artillery roars along a front from north Arras to north of Soissons in a heavy bombardment aimed at widening their wedge toward Amiens. French and British defenses hold key hills south of Albert and near Montdidier while plans for further attacks are anticipated across the Somme and Oise sectors.
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Picardy
Amiens
Arras
Soissons
Albert
Suth
Somme
Montdier
Noyon
Ancre
Luce
Acre
Chauny
Coucy
Ailette
France
Toul
Lorraine
Tralian
Ave
Montello
Asiago
Treland
Lloyd-George
Secretary McAdoo to Speak in Wilmington Tonight
Secretary of the Treasury William Gibbs McAdoo arrives in Wilmington at 6:05 pm on the Atlantic Coast Line and speaks at the Academy of Music at 8:30 pm in the Liberty Loan drive. Boy Scouts will guard him. reception by Chamber of Commerce officials precedes a Draper Street dinner with Dr James Sprunt. city preparations include Harbor views from the Murchison Building and downtown decoration for Liberty Loan.
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Secretary OF Treasury
William Gibbs
W’adoo
Wilmington
Union Station
Odis B. Hinnant
Secretary of
the Treasury
William Gibbs McAdoo
Academy of Music
Woodrow Wilson
McAdoo
Chamber of Commerce
Messrs
Thomas H. Wright
Louis T. Moore
J. C. Williams
J. R. Kenly
H. C. McQueen
M. J. Jacobi
C. C. Chadbourn
Fred W. Dick
Thomas E. Cooper
Jesse F. Roache
E. B. Hunter
M. J. Corbett
A. B. Skelding
Donald MacKas
Roger
Liberty Loan
James Sprunt
South Front Street
Academy
Henry C. McQueen
Parker
Quince Moore
Atlantic Coast Line
George Rountree
E. E. Hunter
Seaboard Air Line
W., By & S. Railroad
Donald MacRae
L. Clayton Grant
W. B. Cooper
Roger Moore
Rotary Club
J. Allan Taylor
J. G. McCormick
Walker Taylor
Customs
Murchison National Bank
J. O. Carr
United States District Attorney
C. C. Lyon
Superior Court
Jos. W. Little
War Savings Committee
Hugh MacRae
Tidewater Power Company
Col
A. W. Chase
Fort Caswell
F. W. Dick
Third Liberty Loan
M. W. Jacobi
J. C. Wiliams
P. Q. Moore
Wrightsville Beach
McAgoo
Murchison
Airplanes collide kill cadet at Lovefield field
In Dallas on April 9 cadet John Insinger of Greenleaf Colorado died when two airplanes collided near Love Field during an American aviation camp. The crash occurred at about 500 feet above the field.
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Dallas
Texas
John Insinger
Greenleaf
Colo
Lovefield
Americans Attack Hue Post In Lorraine Sector
An American army outpost in Lorraine reports clashes on Monday April 8 with a German patrol. The Americans killed one enemy and carried the body back into their trenches for identification. No American casualties were reported.
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Diese
Americ F
Lorraine
Telephones Across Border Closed To Preserve War Secrets
El Paso Texas April 9 Tele phone communication between American and Mexican border towns is to be suspended for the period of the war. The action is voluntary by the telephone companies to prevent information on military movements reaching German agents in Mexico.
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el Paso
Texas
Mexico
Shipyard prospects draw two builders to Wilmington visit
H L Ferguson, Shipping Board agent, and Bengendahl of a Chicago shipyard firm toured Wilmington sites with C C Chadbourn and Thomas H Wright. They viewed all available shipbuilding sites and met at the Cape Fear Club as they evaluated the city for a potential steel shipyard and fabricated ship construction yard.
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H. L. Ferguson
United States Shipping Board
Mr. Bergendahl
Chicago Shipbuilding Corporation
Wilmington
Messrs
Thomas H. Wright
C. C. Chad
Mr. Ferguson
Shipping Board
Bergendahl
Wright and
Chadbourn
Cape Fear
McAdoo Limits Railroad Publicity in Future Advertising
Director General McAdoo orders railroad publicity and advertising to be confined to information the public needs under new directives issued today. The ruling signals tighter control over communications amid wartime measures.
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Washington
McAdoo
Eight Men Entombed in Hartford Mine Blast
An explosion of gas in the Hartford Valley Fuel Company mine near Hartford Arkansas entombed eight men this morning. One man was rescued with slight burns. The blast occurred at the bottom of a shaft 180 feet deep.
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Hartford
Ark
Hartford Valley Fuel Company
Here
Immigrant Office Shakeup Hits Washington and Norfolk
The Department of Labor announced that Officer Morton has been transferred to Washington and Edward B. Schmucker becomes acting head of the immigration office at Norfolk. Norton was moved to St John Newfoundland, and Morton's permanent successor remains unannounced.
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Morton
Washington
Edward B. Schmucker
Norfolk
Department of Labor
H. P. Norton
New Foundland
Liberty Loan Drive Sets Four Million Goal Hailed
Reports from the Liberty Loan drive show strong public enthusiasm across the South with hopeful talk of reaching the four million dollar target. Officials call the response encouraging as campaigns push to lift support above the expected mark.
Liberty Loan Goal Sparks Call for 20 Million Subscribers
Washington and Raleigh reports quote a Treasury statement urging the nation to raise 20 million subscribers for the Liberty Loan. The target would push the loan total to four or five billion dollars, above the three billion goal previously announced.
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Washington
Ames Con
McAdoo
Raleigh
N. C
Liberty
Administration Proposes Melting Silver Dollars for Export
Washington April 9 Melting bullion of not more than 250 000 000 silver dollars now in the Treasury for salt and export to pay trade balance and re purchase of silver at 1 dollar an ounce is proposed in an administration bill introduced today by Lenos Pittman as an emergency war measure. Silver certificates would be withdrawn from circulation as the dollars are taken from the Treasury and Federal Reserve bank notes of new 1 and 2 denominations substituted.
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Washington
Liberty
Treasury
McAdoo
South
Treas
Federal Reserve
Federal Reserve Banks
Lenos Pittman
Federal Reserve Bank
French Locate Long Range Gun Threat to Paris
French aviators have located the big German long range gun shelling Paris. Airmen report the piece is difficult to handle, explaining the intermittent fire that has plagued the city despite French artillery and bombing efforts.
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Paris
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City Landing
Bourn
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